Excerpt from The World Unvisited: Essays and Sketches I should like to go up the Pass of Tempe and climb Olympus, and, if I can get ahead of the new tourist ofiensive that will follow the attainment of world-peace, I may consider a tour from Cairo to Sinai, Akaba, Petraea, the Dead Sea, and the Hauran, with a possible extension to Babylon, Persia, and Turkestan. Even if my cousin Zenobia should remove her ban from Hunland, I shall probably not have any desire to behold the mock fagades and wooden battlements that crown the ...
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Excerpt from The World Unvisited: Essays and Sketches I should like to go up the Pass of Tempe and climb Olympus, and, if I can get ahead of the new tourist ofiensive that will follow the attainment of world-peace, I may consider a tour from Cairo to Sinai, Akaba, Petraea, the Dead Sea, and the Hauran, with a possible extension to Babylon, Persia, and Turkestan. Even if my cousin Zenobia should remove her ban from Hunland, I shall probably not have any desire to behold the mock fagades and wooden battlements that crown the forested bluffs along the Rhine. No river has been so staled by fashion and so travestied by art all the ballads and legends of the Middle Ages, all the atmospheric glamour of Goethe, Heine, and Romain Rolland, cannot obscure the dread facts of Homburg, Wiesbaden, and the tourist steamers and the romantic exaggerations of Turner and his British imitators have hopelessly dwarfed the Rhine scenery. The Blue Danube is less hackneyed, but it does not begin to tempt me till it has passed Budapest; and my objective would not be Belgrade and the Iron Gates, but those mournful willow-forests of the lower reaches, where the lonely river loses itself in dim unbridgeable lagoons, haunted only by frogs__ and wild fowl and the fever mists that whiten m the moonshine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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